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      I won a competition during university, we had to implement a sorting algorithm with MIPS, however required the least cycles to run won.

      I need someone to be impressed by me today, even if it’s for something stupid I did almost a decade ago.

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      Considering the guys on the thread don’t know MIPS is an assembly language, I think there’s some projection involved.

      Though I am not sure why an iOS developer would program in MIPS and not ARM. Maybe there’s some sort of crazy Apple MIPS hardware I never heard of… Or they had to pick one architecture and they happened to pick the one that had nothing to do with her company.

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          They obviously meant in the post that she can program in MIPS assembly. And they shortened it to just MIPS. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Java” mentioned was actually Javascript.

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            There’s a very high likelihood that the “Java” referenced is actually Java, since the college that they went to teaches Java as a part of the standard curriculum (or at least they did via UMass Amherst cross-courses a few years ago). With that being said, I agree that it’s likely MIPS assembly being referenced because that’s what most people mean when they say they can program for MIPS.

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        We did MIPS in college, more as a “this is what assembly is” than a practical thing we would use.